Well, I was right…you never know what is going to happen in the Marshalls. Maybe you’ll wake up one morning with half of your house on fire because the kitchen is burning down and your room is connected to the kitchen. That’s actually not a maybe…that is a definitely! So I woke up two days ago to pounding on my door, screaming TAYLOR, GET UP, GET OUT. When I opened my eyes and looked toward the door the majority of the wall directly in front of me was on fire. How I didn’t smell anything or wake-up, that is beyond me; but nonetheless – it was a real fire. I proceeded to leap out of bed – or off the floor rather – and run outside making sure to jump over the entrance to my house, due to the fact that it too was on fire! By the time I got out Jeffrey and Tari had managed to get most of the big flames out and were working on getting all the smoldering wood pieces out as well.
The night before Lona and I had cooked two loaves of bread, intending to eat them for breakfast. We cooked everything during dinner and took the fire out of the oven at around 9 o’clock. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary – and we all went to bed around 11. I got up to get a drink at around 2 and still…nothing seemed strange and there was no smoke or anything in the kitchen. Come 7 am however, the entire oven was on the ground in ashes and the majority of the cook house was on fire. NO idea how it happened. Maybe a flame stayed lit through the night and when big wind came in the morning relit itself…who knows. Bye bye bread for breakfast though, and hello work all day to rebuild my house and the kitchen.
Not too much of my stuff was ruined, thankfully, only a couple pieces of clothes hanging on the wall and some plastic things (buckets and water holders) that were also in the area. By the end of the day the kitchen was looking decently normal again, with the exception of the destroyed rug and the blackened tins. I really wish I had thought to take pictures of the incident, because it was a trueeee disaster. Thankfully no one was hurt and hopefully now without an oven that won’t be happening again in the near future.
Ok, well that is all the update I have for now. I start another week of school tomorrow…woo hoo. Maybe some teachers will come this week??? Who knows. Probably not, but you can always hope right?
Hope all is well in the states…thinking about everyone lots and can’t wait to be back in just 5 short months. ☺
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
January 28, 2009
Maybe I didn’t write for a month because nothing really interesting here happens anymore…I suppose with the exception of the drama. Although there’s no routine – its just the same old stuff…if that makes sense?
Living in the new house is still lots of fun. I think it has actually made me appreciate my time at school a bit more – which is a good thing. Now that I don’t live there I get more done while I am there, because I know I wont be able to just walk on over at 10 if I need something or didn’t get something done. I also don’t have the entire school population sitting at my door doing everything with me anymore – so it is more enjoyable to see them now. Not that it was horrible before, but it’s just a nice change.
We had a PTA meeting today finally – after no one showed up to the last three. We are planning education week right now – and I am having a lot of fun with that one! As of now we are planning to have school in the mornings and then do activities, involving both parents and students, which celebrate education, in the afternoon. The actual week isn’t until the 3rd week in April, so I am astonished and excited that we are already planning for it. The town attempted to protest at first, saying they didn’t like the teachers, why should they celebrate them…but I convinced them that wasn’t the way to go about it. Instead, they wrote formal complaints to the ministry and are going to take place in the week while attempting to help out the teachers when they can. I like the newly found honest approach the community members are taking in confronting the teachers. Before, everyone simply sat back and complained…however, now, they are calling them on their laziness and reporting them to Majuro. Go Lukoj!
Ok well that is really all that is going on here. I wish I had more exciting things to tell you about…maybe next time. This is the Marshalls, you never know what’s coming.
Living in the new house is still lots of fun. I think it has actually made me appreciate my time at school a bit more – which is a good thing. Now that I don’t live there I get more done while I am there, because I know I wont be able to just walk on over at 10 if I need something or didn’t get something done. I also don’t have the entire school population sitting at my door doing everything with me anymore – so it is more enjoyable to see them now. Not that it was horrible before, but it’s just a nice change.
We had a PTA meeting today finally – after no one showed up to the last three. We are planning education week right now – and I am having a lot of fun with that one! As of now we are planning to have school in the mornings and then do activities, involving both parents and students, which celebrate education, in the afternoon. The actual week isn’t until the 3rd week in April, so I am astonished and excited that we are already planning for it. The town attempted to protest at first, saying they didn’t like the teachers, why should they celebrate them…but I convinced them that wasn’t the way to go about it. Instead, they wrote formal complaints to the ministry and are going to take place in the week while attempting to help out the teachers when they can. I like the newly found honest approach the community members are taking in confronting the teachers. Before, everyone simply sat back and complained…however, now, they are calling them on their laziness and reporting them to Majuro. Go Lukoj!
Ok well that is really all that is going on here. I wish I had more exciting things to tell you about…maybe next time. This is the Marshalls, you never know what’s coming.
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